Unless you have the courage to say ‘no’ to the things you don’t want, it’s hard to say ‘yes’ to the things that you do want.
Having a poverty mentality leaves you focusing on all the things you don’t have, when in reality you probably already have everything you need.
The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for.
Nobody from your past should be held responsible for your future. The only person accountable for your future is you.
Remember, however bad things might be right now, this moment will pass and your life will continue to be a good one.
Perfection is impossible. Expecting the best from yourself isn’t about trying to be perfect; it’s about striving to be the best you can be.
Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams and believe in your right to achieve your dreams.
Your life paradigm is the set of beliefs or operating system for your life. Make sure you choose one that supports lifelong happiness.
Your self-esteem is a valuable resource. Make sure you encourage, nurture, protect and support yours.
Regardless of your upbringing or formative experiences, it is never too late to start believing in yourself.
The happiest, most successful people believe in themselves unconditionally. They know they can do, be and have all that they want in life.
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to ackno...
I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t change that.
Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.
Don't let pain & heartaches and looking for better solutions in life...STOP you from being happy! Enjoy loving life and every beautiful sunset it has to offer!
Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.
On my more difficult days, I'm not sure what's more of a pain in my ass -- being black or being a woman. I'm happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps intervening.
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.
